JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



AUGUST, 1847. 



Notes on the Antiquities of the Districts within the Bhopal Agency, 

 fyc. bxj Capt, J. D. Cunningham, Engineers, Political Agent, 

 Bhopal. 



I send you two packages of inscriptions, copied during a tour of the 

 districts within the Bhopal Agency, which I have just completed, I 

 trust that they may reach you in safety, and that the few I have set 

 apart from the rest may be deemed worthy of publication. 



The existence of a " Tope" near Bhilsa was known to myself as to 

 others through the medium of the Asiatic Society's Journal, but as I 

 had not the book by me at the time, I was not prepared to find so 

 interesting and valuable a monument as I conceive this Tope to present. 

 The whole country moreover, on either side of the upper Betwah and 

 North and South of Bhilsa, is full of antiquities, and I am glad that 

 I have had an opportunity of bringing some of these relics to your 

 notice. 



In describing the localities, or the buildings, or the monuments, 

 which have furnished the several inscriptions, I may indulge in some 

 speculation, and it is therefore but candid, although it is hardly neces- 

 sary, to remind you of my want of scholarship and indeed of any 

 deficiencies in every way, excepting, perhaps, in a proper degree of 

 interest in the history of the country and of the creeds which its inha- 

 bitants have professed. My lucubrations however will not take long to 

 read, and they may be suggestive to others. 



No. VIII. New Series. 5 d 



